In Cell Phone Cinema, students write a script, plan production design, secure locations and film a short using only their cell phones and simple sound equipment.
Students in Design Strategy Studio will be given three different scenarios, spanning different aspects of the vehicle and transportation industries.
Spatial Experience Design faculty member James Meraz assigned his fifth term, Sustainability Studio students, to deconstruct a product.
Creative Writing Minor What does it mean to minor in creative writing? ArtCenter's Creative Writing Minor offers a specialized series of courses that allow you to explore storytelling in several forms, including poetry, screenwriting and children’s literature. We believe that writing provid...
ArtCenter Film students collaborate with artists and designers from other departments and graduate with diversified skill-sets translatable to careers in all areas of film, TV and commercial production
In this multi-disciplinary Creative Direction and Designmatters studio, students created a gun violence and prevention campaign designed to serve a diverse population of at-risk youth.
Explore the curriculum for ArtCenter's minors in creative writing, business and materials science.
Craft visual narratives and tell world-opening stories as a filmmaker. ArtCenter’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Film equips you with state-of-the-art production equipment, facilities, and post-production tools to make compelling films starting in your first semester. Pursue the film major in...
In the Animation track of ArtCenter's BS in Entertainment Design students develop core skills in character animation, directing, storyboarding, modeling, layout, previs and lighting. Learn more.
Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Olympics. In this Designmatters course, students examine how resources and spaces are impacted when a city invites the Olympic Games into its community.
Embedded Interactions is a four-week intensive studio, where students design and build prototypes that utilize a mix of working systems, wizard-of-ozing, and video simulations.
ASUS tapped ArtCenter Photography & Imaging students to create digital imagery to play on its Pro-Art monitors.
ArtCenter College of Design offers six different tracks within the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration major. Learn more now.
ArtCenter students work with patients and providers in this hands-on course to identify and solve pressing health and wellness challenges for people with disabilities.
Featured Course Going Viral By the mid–1990s, epidemics had seeped into the cultural consciousness and public discourse. Since then, these narratives have continued to resonate with pop culture audiences in tandem with mounting anxieties in the American social, political and cultural landsca...
Program Learning Outcomes Mission Statement Our Department is about: “Designing the total Spatial Experience” from the first moment of encounter to the last moment of interaction. We believe that the strength of a project’s message is based in the power of our design story and th...
In this intensive, project-based course, students focus on emerging topics that ladder up to Media Design Practices’ research interests, from technology to science to global politics. With the obvious urgency for humans to re-evaluate our relationships with the planet, the theme for thi...
Graduate Brand Design and Strategy course descriptions